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Exploring Film through Bad Cinema

Exploring Film through Bad Cinema

Wall, David C.

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

General SociologyFilm Guides & Reference

ISBN10: 1032655240
ISBN13: 9781032655246
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 8 2025
Pages: 194
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Exploring Film through Bad Cinema offers an overview of the practice of film analysis through a specific focus on the concept of bad cinema within a series of broad cultural and historical contexts.

Providing a wide-ranging discussion of film from multiple perspectives, including history, aesthetics, and criticism, this broad theoretical engagement illustrates the ways in which the registers of value that we apply to film are inseparable from the wider discourses of taste that shape our culture. While loosely chronological, it is largely thematic in arrangement as it applies the traditional methods of film studies to in-depth discussions of some of the most notoriously (and compellingly) bad films in cinema history. Situating its analysis of a wide variety of films and filmmakers in terms of period, genre, and issues such as the emergence of narrative cinema, canon formation, and the politics of cultural hierarchy, it provides an in-depth consideration of the multiple and complex social and aesthetic discourses that shape our qualitative assessments of film.

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